UFS Head of Finance VN & KH and Business Excellence Vietnam

Job Descriptions

• As the BU Finance Manager, also as one of the key players in the local leadership team, is expected to support and identify business development opportunities; facilitate key business decision making process, drive investment efficiency and well manage P&L to a healthy/sustainable shape.
• Facilitate strategic planning and risk management for the PU
• Be responsible to proactively manage the entire BU P&L for Vietnam & Cambodia.
• Develop progressive plans and initiate necessary actions with the business to capture growth opportunities or GM improvement opportunities.
• Use in depth insights and analysis to do dynamic resources allocation and budget management.
• Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from Finance Business Partner.
• Review projects in process and upcoming challenges and highlight to leadership team.
• Drive decision making around resource allocation and budget setting in PU.
• Evaluate business cases and give feedback based on sustainable profitable growth.
• Drive pre- and post-launch interventions for innovations.
• Identify major risks and opportunities and share with leadership team.
• Ensure BU related financial controls are well managed and mitigation actions in place.
• Well engage with local finance share service team to ensure sufficient support to drive BU business.
• As the Finance Business Excellence Head, key elements of the scope may include:
• Efficient Processes:
  • Streamlining financial operations to reduce costs, improve accuracy, and accelerate financial reporting and analysis.
  • Automate processes to update daily/monthly report.
• Data & Report Management:
  • Build and maintain Selling solutions for sales force both FTE & Distributors all channels (Armstrong, Mobility) to improve sales efficiency of the selling system.
  • Manage distributor data (digital SSD sales data), system synthesis, maintenance of source data and common operational data, actual operational data... to support the Make decisions and implement them quickly.
  • Manage telesales data.
• Performance Management:
  • Establishing KPIs and metrics to monitor financial performance, track progress against goals, and facilitate continuous improvement.
  • Target setting for CD by individual x monthly, measure achievement %
  • Payout incentives & awards accordingly
  • Develop & maintain sales dashboard
  • Provide descriptive analysis to CD team to improve Sales performance of next month.
• Customer Service & Planning:
  • Providing timely, accurate, and actionable financial insights to support strategic decision-making at all levels of the organization.
  • Prevent loss & improve SL <95% by investigating w respective functions (SC MSO & Planning, CSE, Distributors)
  • Act as a representative for the entire sales department working with the planning department, sales managers, and marketing department to accurately plan.
• Risk Management: Implementing robust risk management frameworks to identify, assess, and mitigate financial risks, such as market volatility, credit risk, and operational risks.
• Sales support for DT & MT: (including Telesales)
  • Manage sales data, coordinate customer purchases
  • Manage the telephone sales department, together with sales managers, identify business development opportunities and devise implementation plans to ensure business sales are achieved
  • Promotion operation & announcement
  • Contract NSO, new channel
  • Billing of Distributors
• People Development:
  • Set KPIs, manage and evaluate employee work performance
  • Guide, train and develop employees skills and job knowledge
  • Carry out other tasks and projects as requested as manager level

Job Requirements:

• Finance Business Partnering and Category / Customer experience.
• Experience with the identification of risks and opportunities in the P&L.
• Experience in driving P&L performance improvements.
• Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.
• Supply chain finance experience can be an added advantage (not required).

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